Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 2 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 3 | She 'd been back to the shop twice hoping to chase the progress of her textiles order . |
| 4 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 5 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 6 | He 'd been once to the one on the ground floor , that was all . |
| 7 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 8 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 9 | Some of those who had been out to the countryside or into factories to do their ‘ social practice ’ were even more critical of the existing regime . |
| 10 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 11 | Robert had been back to the gallery , to the annoyance , I felt sure , of the owner . |
| 12 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 13 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 14 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |